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LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Akers Biosciences Inc : * 3.5 million unit order for breath alcohol tubes * has received a purchase order to manufacture 3.5 million units of a custom breath alcohol detector, based on the Company's BreathScan product, for $1.05 million

By Ronald Grover and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, July 13 (Reuters) - YouTube has embarked on a new round of discussions with Hollywood and independent producers to fund premium content, two sources with knowledge of the talks told Reuters, a move that could bolster a three-year-old multimillion-dollar effort that has had mixed success so far. The talks underscore Google Inc's desire to complete YouTube's transition from a repository for...

Imagine: You wake up, crawl out of bed, head for the bathroom, grab your tube of toothpaste and it's not there. No, you didn`t run out; it just doesn`t exist anywhere. You panic. Permanent morning breath. Fear creeps up your spine just thinking of the drill your dentist will use now that cavities are almost inevitable. What are you going to do? No, this is not a script for "The Twilight Zone." It is what reality would be like for you, me or any of the world's common folk if there were no tubes.

As Google and other Silicon Valley firms decry an appellate court ruling holding that an actress had a copyright interest in her performance, enough to force YouTube to remove an inflammatory " Innocence of Muslims " video, the judges who ruled for her request have amended their opinion. The original, unexpected 2-1 decision from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in February held that even though Cindy Lee Garcia had a minor role in the...

When Video Review magazine selected the Toshiba CF3254J as the best large-screen direct-view TV in its February issue, we decided to investigate this 32-inch TV's background. Like the Honda Accord, this highly rated product is manufactured in the United States. While Sony has long manufactured TVs in the U.S., Toshiba scooped the competition by being the first company to manufacture giant-screen TV picture tubes in America. In Horseheads, N.Y., just outside Elmira, 1,350 American...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Best-selling author James Patterson has reached a deal to turn his young adult book franchise "Maximum Ride" into an Internet video series that will be released on YouTube. Patterson sold exclusive online rights for "Maximum Ride" to Collective Digital Studio (CDS), a production company and operator of YouTube channels, according to a statement released on Wednesday. The eight "Maximum Ride" books, which have sold more than 30 million copies,...

Pope John Paul II said Saturday that the removal of feeding tubes from patients in vegetative states was immoral, and that no judgment on their quality of life could justify such "euthanasia by omission." The pope made the comments to participants of a Vatican conference on the ethical dilemmas of dealing with incapacitated patients, entering into a debate that has sparked court battles in the United States and elsewhere. The pope said that even the medical terminology used to...

A long-lost Bill Murray film appearance from 1984 has surfaced on YouTube. This bit of cinematic archaeology was unearthed by the website Dangerous Minds . "Nothing Lasts Forever" - which also includes appearances by Dan Aykroyd, Imogene Coca, Sam Jaffe and Eddie Fisher - was written and directed by "Saturday Night Live" veteran Tom Schiller, who created shorts for the NBC sketch show. Lorne Michaels produced. MGM never released the sci-fi comedy in theaters - and it's...

Q-When surgeons sterilize a woman, do they "cut" the tubes? What does that mean? A-If a woman decides she does not want any more children, she can choose to be sterilized, which involves blocking the Fallopian tubes, the two hollow arms on either side of the uterus. Each month an egg moves down one of these tubes from the ovary to the uterus, and it is within the tube that a sperm fertilizes the egg. If the tube is blocked or cut, the egg and sperm are kept apart, and fertilization does not...

New Form Digital , the online studio joint venture of Discovery Communications , Brian Grazer , Ron Howard and others, has cut its first production deals with 14 YouTube creators for short films. The studio is funding the films, each less than 10 minutes long, with a project it's calling the New Form Incubator. It has deals with creators including Joey Graceffa , Joe Penna ( MysteryGuitarMan ), Sawyer...

Reader Jennifer Bartlett of Brookfield is a champion recycler, the kind who makes sure her Equal packets -- and even those minuscule tabs on tea bags -- end up in her recycling bin. But she's stumped by one type of package: Namely, the cardboard tubes with metal ends that hold such products as scouring powder, cinnamon rolls and baking powder. She's used a sharp knife or scissors to separate the cardboard from the lids, but it's hard work and probably not the safest use of her fingers.

On the back of Joe Elbaor's 1990 Chevy Silverado is a bumper sticker that reads, "The closer you get, the slower I drive. " On the front is a video camera about the size of a cigarette pack. Elbaor mounts the $300 camera in his passenger compartment to record erratic or uncivilized driving. The Glen Ellyn man is part of a growing number of motorists using the devices to monitor what's happening in front of — and sometimes behind — their vehicles. They want cameras...

Royalty performing James Brown? Without a doubt, it was the most excitement that the dwellers of Bora Bora had seen since Cher blew through on vacation a few years ago. The event in question was Bora Bora's King Tau Tu Tautaha's recent rock `n` soul debut with members of the Tubes, San Francisco's original schlock troupe. "It was very unusual," Tubes drummer Prairie Prince said of his performance with King Tau Tu, proper Bora Bora royalty reference. "It was the biggest event the...

(Reuters) - Internet giant Yahoo has put in a bid of around $250 million to buy Fullscreen, a company which creates content for YouTube channels, Britain's Sky News reported on Thursday. Yahoo is looking to expand its reach to young consumers through the acquisition of the company, which generates more than 3 billion monthly views on Google Inc's YouTube. Yahoo faces competition from private investment firm Chernin for control of the California-based...

Q--My young son has had recurrent ear problems. The ear infections don`t seem to respond well to medications. My doctor says he wants to insert tubes in my son's ears. Can you tell me about these tubes? What are the side effects? Will my son still be able to participate in sports activities with the tubes in place? A--Typanostomy tubes are used when middle-ear infections fail to respond to treatment within a few weeks. Many physicians suggest that tubes may be warranted...

YouTube CEO Anne Wojcicki introduced a slew of innovations to creators assembled at Vidcon on Thursday in Anaheim, with the goal of aimed at helping them make more money off their videos. "It's a focus of mine to bring more revenue to the YouTube ecosystem," said Wojcicki, who moved into the top job at YouTube just five months ago. First introduced was fan subtitles, which will allow users to translate videos in different languages of their favorite videos....

The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division is investigating LaFox-based Richardson Electronics Ltd.'s growing control over the domestic electron-tube market. Company officials on Friday said the Justice Department has given the company until April 10 to turn over financial records from the last five years and projections for the next five. Electron tubes have for the most part been replaced by semiconductors. However, there remains a $120 million domestic electron-tube market,...

(Reuters) - YouTube is venturing onto radio with a weekly show on satellite radio service Sirius XM that will feature the online video website's most popular and emerging artists, the companies said on Thursday. The show called The YouTube 15 will be hosted by Jenna Marbles, one of YouTube's most popular stars whose videos on how to talk to your dog and other snippets from her life drew more than 13 million subscribers to her channel. YouTube's radio show will debut July...

Q-My young son has recurring ear problems. The ear infections don`t seem to respond well to medications, and the doctor says he wants to insert tubes in my son's ears. Can you tell me about these tubes? What are the side effects? Will my son still be able to participate in sports activities with the tubes in place? A-Typanostomy tubes are used when middle ear infections fail to respond to treatment within a few weeks. Many physicians suggest tubes may be warranted after other...